Heike Vallery is a German mechanical engineer whose research involves the development of robot legs and exoskeletons to assist in human walking, including applications in prosthetics and medical rehabilitation.
[1] She is a professor of biomechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, and Alexander von Humboldt Professor at RWTH Aachen University.
[2] She was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zürich and an assistant professor at Khalifa University before becoming a faculty member at Delft University of Technology in 2012.
[2] She added an affiliation as honorary professor at Erasmus MC, a medical research center in Rotterdam, in 2019.
[3] She is currently Head of the Institute of Automatic Control at RWTH Aachen University, successing Dirk Abel.